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This rich ethnographic study describes the nearly impossible challenge of the daily existence of women in the poor neighbourhoods of Cairo. When these women fall ill they often put the blame on beings from an invisible world that invaded their body (possession), and they seek the help of traditional healers in the Zar ceremony or Koran healing. This book examines in detail the links between cosmology, power and gender. It tackles questions such as 'what is possession, what is being said with it, and what does society have to do with it?'. The author, who lived a long time in various poor areas of Cairo, attended many sessions of Koran healing and participated in the Zar ceremony. She observed and interviewed many possessed women, as well as healers and other 'demon specialists'.

Healing --- Spiritual healing --- Religious aspects --- Islam

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Malgré des progrès incessants, la médecine scientifique est impuissante à prendre en charge tous les maux de l'humanité. A son corps défendant, elle cède le terrain à un autre art de soigner: celui des guérisseurs traditionnels souvent investis d'un don personnel transmis de génération en génération. Cette tradition fait partie intégrante de la médecine populaire aux multiples aspects: culte des saints guérisseurs, recours aux plantes médicinales, pratiques magico-religieuses, etc... Associé au Séminaire des Arts et Traditions Populaires de Wallonie de l'Université de Liège et à divers autres chercheurs, le Piconrue - Musée de la Grande Ardenne a mené une enquête en profondeur sur le sujet. L'ouvrage a pour ambition de lever un coin du voile sur le petit monde secret des guérisseurs d'hier et d'aujourd'hui et sur la vitalité de la médecine populaire dont la résistance intrigue dans notre société moderne et scientifique.

Guérisseurs --- Spiritual healing --- Healers --- Traditional medicine --- Wallonia (Belgium)

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Since its publication in the mid-eighteenth century, Hume's discussion of miracles has been the target of severe and often ill-tempered attacks. In this book, one of our leading historians of philosophy offers a systematic response to these attacks. Arguing that these criticisms have--from the very start--rested on misreadings, Robert Fogelin begins by providing a narrative of the way Hume's argument actually unfolds. What Hume's critics (and even some of his defenders) have failed to see is that Hume's primary argument depends on fixing the appropriate standards of evaluating testimony presented on behalf of a miracle. Given the definition of a miracle, Hume quite reasonably argues that the standards for evaluating such testimony must be extremely high. Hume then argues that, as a matter of fact, no testimony on behalf of a religious miracle has even come close to meeting the appropriate standards for acceptance. Fogelin illustrates that Hume's critics have consistently misunderstood the structure of this argument--and have saddled Hume with perfectly awful arguments not found in the text. He responds first to some early critics of Hume's argument and then to two recent critics, David Johnson and John Earman. Fogelin's goal, however, is not to "bash the bashers," but rather to show that Hume's treatment of miracles has a coherence, depth, and power that makes it still the best work on the subject.

Miracles. --- Hume, David, --- Mirakels --- God --- Marvelous, The --- Miracle workers --- Spiritual healing --- Supernatural --- Miracles --- Hume, David --- Hume, David, - 1711-1776.

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Miracles. --- 226.6 --- Handelingen der apostelen. Akten van de apostelen --- Miracles --- Bible. --- Acts (Book of the New Testament) --- Acts of the Apostles --- Chongdo haengjŏn --- Sado haengjŏn --- Criticism, Form. --- God --- Marvelous, The --- Miracle workers --- Spiritual healing --- Supernatural

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This work examines the counseling approaches and techniques used by Yoruba traditional healers of Nigeria. It also describes the functions performed by Yoruba traditional healers when they work within the Yoruba cultural milieu. The information elicited from Yoruba traditional healers through videotape and interviews was analyzed by a Nigerian woman from the Yoruba ethnic group. The results of the volume support the premise that culture plays a significant role in the kind of healing methods and counseling techniques used by professionals and traditional healers, as well as in the type of prof

Yoruba (African people) --- Healers --- Counseling --- Curanderos --- Faith healers --- Mental healers --- Psychic healers --- Spiritual healers --- Traditional healers --- Healing --- Mental healing --- Spiritual healing --- Counselling --- Helping behavior --- Psychology, Applied --- Clinical sociology --- Interviewing --- Personal coaching --- Social case work --- Medicine.